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Consume podcast. I'm your host, Pip. Tonight,
as always, and disappointed as ever, are my co
-hosts, Gibbs and Gibbles. Hello. Hey. You should
not ever be allowed a management position at
your job. No. The bad thing is, I think they
might be putting me in one here before long.
Well, don't send them this video. Challenge taken.
Challenge accepted. So tonight we are coming
to you live or recorded by the time you're listening
to this from Snowmageddon 2026. We are thankfully
still with power and internet. For now, exactly.
So if anything cuts out during the show, that's
what it'll be attributed to. Yeah. Probably Gibbs.
Yeah. It looks like the updated totals are going
to be more than two feet. Gross. So, yeah. I'm
sitting here with my eight inches and just sitting
proud and happy for once. You're lucky. My driveway
already looks like I haven't touched it. You
got to be kidding me. I have reflective posts
that are now covered. And it's like up to my
waist. Oh, geez. Living off the lake is just
been the most amazing idea. Yeah. All right.
So tonight, since we've had a few topics on the
show that. are going to tie into this. We're
going to be talking about the one thing that
humans have spent literally thousands of years
trying to accept, and now 10 minutes of AI is
trying to undo. It's currently January of 2026,
and a few weeks ago, a new law went into effect
in California. It's called Senate Bill 243. It's
a very dry piece of legislation on paper, but
it's mostly forcing AI companies to disclose
when you're talking to a bot. But if you look
between the lines, the reason because that law
exists, it's not because of customer service
bots. It's because of digital necromancy. And
necromancers are usually pretty cool, but in
this case, not so much. Right now, as you're
listening to this, there are servers in Northern
Virginia that are coming away with personas,
virtual personas of people who aren't here anymore.
And for $30 a month, you can FaceTime a digital
ghost trained on one of your late parents' old
text messages and voice notes. It looks like
them. It laughs like them. It has all their little
mannerisms. And it even remembers that big trip
to the lake back in 18. Hold on. All I can say
is if somebody does that with my mother, I will
burn the building to the ground. No, that woman
does not get to live forever. No. Yeah, well,
this is thankfully a service that you have to
prepay for. Can I ask a quick question on this?
Yes. I think this is actually kind of important.
Does this require the consent of the family or
anyone involved? We are going to talk about that.
That is down here. I have that. So now in a world
where we consume everything, like every moment
and every bite, we finally have started consuming,
have we started to finally consume our own grief?
We used to say rest in peace, but now it sounds
like the industry is saying stay in the stack.
That's a terrifying thing to think about. You
ain't kidding, buddy. It's not like you're actually
preserving people. It's all fake, 100%. Right,
it's not like you took somebody and scanned their
brain and said, okay, now I'm taking the brain
and making it digital. Right. So this episode
is going to touch on a couple of our previous
episodes. Last week, we talked about the Cognify
stuff where they're kind of getting into your
brain and do a memory manipulation. But also
way back early in the first season, we talked
about the upload possibility of the digital afterlife.
This is a whole different kind of spin on that
idea. This is probably even the precursor to
that. Well, I was going to say that's something
that's readily doable, obviously, today. Yeah,
this is being done. I have seen ads for this
stuff. Where? I have not heard. Before you wrote
this up, I have never seen anything about this.
Yeah, we obviously have very different feeds
coming to our eyeballs. But yes, I have seen
the ads for this shit. I know my feed is definitely
different than all yours. Oh, yeah. So we're
going to go ahead and take a look at the already
$40 million grief tech market. The ethics of
the subscription soul and why the most radical
act of love in a digital age might actually be
letting someone actually go. So we can start
this off by talking about the new necromancy.
We have moved from memorials to permanent simulations.
The transition from memorialization, which would
be static photos and even old videos, to a new
interactive immortality. And the numbers as of
out this month, the global digital immortality
market is valued at approximately $36 .8 million,
with projections pushing it towards $118 billion
by 2034. Agentic AI becomes the standard. And
there are already some key players. Eternos offers
legacy accounts starting at $25 a month to keep
your digital twin alive. And there's a story
that we're going to touch on with that one that's
already been used. Did you have something, Gibbs?
I'm just taking this all in. I don't like any
of this. I already read over the notes, so I
know. it's just one of those things once you
start to process it and understand that the dead
internet theory is going to become way more relevant
than we ever thought possible yeah dead internet
is one thing but now it's actually dead people
internet that's a whole different ball game like
there's going to be a future if this becomes
true where 80 of facebook is going to be ai accounts
of people you used to know posting about bullshit
yeah yeah There's a company called You Only Virtual.
They specialize in the Versonas, which are the
AIs that are built specifically to mimic the
unique relationship between two people. That
would be like a mom bot that only knows how to
talk to you. This isn't just preserving memories
anymore. They are building denial as a service.
They're paying a monthly fee. to pretend the
most fundamental part of the human experience,
death, has been patched out of the latest update.
This, I feel, is kind of a pathway into the mental
health aspect of the grieving process because
you have to get to that acceptance stage. And
if you're going with one of these services, you
will never get to the acceptance. Because you
still have the interactability. You're still
able to have conversations. And with the AI features,
they can update, they can learn, and they can
grow, essentially, with new information. Oh,
so we're going to get sent hints with someone's
dead persona. Okay. Yeah. Great. So, I feel like
this is part of the issue that we have of letting
people... There's no easy way to say this. I'm
just going to say it. We're letting mentally
ill people run the asylum when it comes to how
the way the world's going. We're putting bubble
wrap on absolutely everything and saying, nope,
nobody went away. Nobody's hurt. Everything's
fine. Everything's all good. That's how, you
know, we're entering the dystopia when people,
unfortunately, are trying to find every excuse
possible to not live the world that they're in.
Yeah, pretty much. Yeah. Man. In a world full
of crazy people, the crazier the sane. So the
$36 .8 million market valuation, that's out as
of right now. It's no longer a weird startup
kind of thing. It's becoming a standard feature
in high -end estate planning. So the people that
are well off can actually kind of get this stuff
set up the AI, the servers and all that stuff
with video interviews, text message dumps, all
that kind of stuff. So there was a man named
Michael bomber or bomber. I'm probably mispronouncing
his name. B O M M E R. Uh, he's an engineer who
used Eternos to create a digital twin before
passing from terminal cancer. So that is the
case that has already been used. Uh, with this
whole situation. But that's still not him. It's
not him, but it was as close as we can get to
the upload scenario with current technology to
being him. It was a way for his family to process
because his life was cut short. Wait, a process?
Oh, God, no. They're never going to let go. Maybe
eventually. And we'll talk about that a little
bit later on. So, Gibbs, did you want to take
over the next part here? I swear there's nothing
complicated in here. You yelled at me last week
for that. It was a word I had never had to spell.
It's fine. It's fine. It's fine. It's okay. The
historical link. Victorian era versus modern
methods. So you're talking about discussing their
obsession with death or things like hair, jewelry,
mementos, photography, and the rise of spiritualism,
things like Ouija boards, mediums, kind of ways
to talk with the dead. So what's going to be
interesting, I think where the cross section
of this is, I wonder if culturally this will
become going from being something that's like
taboo into something that is almost normalized.
Where it's like, oh, you know, grandma, grandpa
are on the way out. We got to have, you know,
their, their AI personas uploaded and all the
memories and everything. They got to upload everything.
That way they can still talk to them on Facebook
or whatever. I wonder if it's going to be something
that's like, I hate to say it, but like people
do on the regular. I have a thought. I have a
thought because what you said there, what would
be the legal ramifications where. somebody goes
and writes a will and people disagree with said
will. So then they go to the virtual AI who's
supposed to be a persona of that person. And
we get to the point where everybody's like, Oh,
you know, that's really that person. Can that
AI then supersede what was written in the will?
No, I wouldn't think so because a lot of this
takes a lot of, um, prep before that person passes
it wouldn't be recognized as a consciousness
either like we're not at the singularity point
right just like a um it's like a digital snapshot
yeah i'm just curious because you know how dumb
people are so oh don't worry people will try
that's what i'm saying i you know and it's not
gonna hold up in court Granted, that is assuming
the judges are going to be smart enough to understand
this because I hate to say it, but a lot of judges
are older. I think that's going to go right over
their heads. I think they're just not going to
get it. But one of the things you brought up
here that I didn't realize until we were discussing
this was you're talking about your obsession
with hair, jewelry, mementos, photography. What
I'm wondering is if we're becoming truly a digitized
world or a digitized culture. Are we no longer
going to have things to pass down physically
from one generation to another? Because think
about it. At least in my generation, we ain't
going to own shit because of the way the economy
is going. So what's weird is assets are going
to go from a physical medium to a digital medium.
They're going to be photos, Instagram accounts,
different reels, all things that are digitized
that are kept separate. But in terms of physical
things to hand down, people aren't going to be
handing down, maybe some. But a lot of people
aren't going to be handing down like photo books,
scrapbooks, like recipes, like everything's literally
going to be ones and zeros. I wonder if this
can be part of that inheritance kind of thing
where it's they almost become a repository of
information. That's a that's a good thought.
I hadn't considered that. It's very possible.
I think for a lot of people, especially people
that are not well off financially, that they
can afford digital assets and not real assets.
This might be part of the package of, oh, your
loved ones have passed away. We could do this
whole in memoriam thing. We set up the digital
AI thing with all their information, everything
stored on the AI person that was your family
member. And that we just ask him for stuff like,
oh, what's what's that photo of Uncle Bill from,
you know, 1992 where he's doing this? Like, oh,
let me search through here. I remember this.
This is what this time. You know what I mean?
They like describe what happened and all that.
Yeah. It wouldn't work for me. Wouldn't work
for me, though. Yeah. Wouldn't work for me because
I'm such an asshole. So what happens? What happens
if you do this right? You make your own Harry
Potter scenario. We upload them into like portraits.
and you hang them on the wall, and then they're
all yelling at each other. They get to watch
as the whole family gets uploaded as AI photos,
and all different parts all yelling at each other
and fucking screaming. Oh my god, it's the last
family reunion all over again. Every day. You
ask it about the Thanksgiving where everybody
had this big argument, and it all of a sudden
just shows the big argument taking place, and
it's... It's just, it's an episode of Springer.
Oh, even better. You get the one family where,
you know, somebody asked to pass the gravy. They
get told, you know, to F themselves. And next
thing you know, there's a dead body on the ground.
Put them in picture frames and see how that goes.
See, it won't be real until I can get one uncle
to yell at another uncle some racial slur. And
they fucking kill each other through the photo.
Then I know we're onto something. But until we
can set those kind of classic family fights.
Because I feel like there is a method for this,
honestly, that would be, I think, helpful for
people, too, to be able to have that family -style
reunion where they all interact, if that's possible.
I think they're just going to cheap out and do
this like the shortest, cheapest way possible.
Of course. Oh, yeah. Subscribe for three. And
what they're going to do is they're going to
fucking guilt trap people because they're going
to say, oh, we have your grandma for $3 .99 a
month. Pay us or else she gets deleted. Like,
it's going to be this absolute guilt trip bullshit.
Oh, yeah. Well, that's going to be that whole,
you know, the way things are now with subscriptions.
Oh, you want to leave? Well, you're not going
to be such a fun person anymore, are you? Don't
unsubscribe. You know, crap like that. Grandma
has been downgraded to hell. Just see the background.
She's just burning in the photo. Pay the money.
Pay the money. Oh, geez. That's going to be Black
Mirror right there. Unless you get the super
special package, Grandma is now going to be living
at five frames per second. Oh, my God. She's
not having a stroke. She's just at 4 FPS. Oh
my god. Imagine that being the family reunion.
The family reunion at the trailer park. They're
not stuttering. They're just at low speed. That's
how it fucking works. Can you imagine if they
did have a speech impediment like that and they
uploaded that? Oh Jesus. fucking Albert Fudd
would be out there coughing up his throat. Oh,
man. Oh, no. But you know what? You could put
them on really funny stuff. Like, imagine you
put, like, your grandfather that was a dick on,
like, a mug. So every morning we'd go to, like,
drink coffee. It's like, ah, wake up, asshole.
Ah, hey, Grandpa, how you doing? Like, just...
There's funny things you could do with them.
Like, that... There is a method. There is some
way you could do with it, but... I feel like
it's going to be way too serious and way too
not fun. You know? Yeah. No, if they did it to
me, it wouldn't be a good idea. I'm an asshole.
So, yeah. Oh, you want to know where I hid such
and such? Oh, yeah, go fuck yourself. You want
to say hi? Yeah, no, go screw off. Right. Y 'all
put me in here. I'm not happy. I'm going to make
your life a living hell. It'll be shit like that.
Yeah. Yeah, we don't talk to Grandpa. Why? He's
an asshole. Why is he still online? Because if
you delete him, we're afraid he's going to break
the internet. Let's see here. So I think we kind
of covered that one. Yeah. Well, so, um, yeah,
cause, cause back in the day, everyone wanted
something physical to hold onto. And with, with
the transition to the digital state, um, it's,
it's just kind of the comparison of, is it, is
it just the transition to a more sophisticated
state of grief or is it, um, just the natural
progression you know it's not natural without
that no i think it also has to do with the fact
that like the way civilization has worked for
thousands of years has been interrupted by modern
civilization so Usually how it would go is like,
obviously you, you grow up and then you have
a family, then you get old and the family takes
care of you and you die. And it kind of starts
the cycle over again, but it's usually very linear.
It's all, all stages are happening at the same
time. Right. And it's required that every stage
happens, you know, obviously. As soon as basically
you can raise kids and have kids, you're probably
having kids. You'll probably have several generations
underneath you, and then you turn a ripe old
age of 35 and you die because that's what happened
in the medieval times. Or if you live in the
District of Columbia right now, that happens
too. Yeah, 37. They got two more years. All that
modern technology is really helping them out.
But I think... The issue is we don't really value
things the same way that we used to in that way
because you have people living a lot longer,
but also there isn't that sense of community
anymore. Most people don't live with their family.
Most people live very far away. There's not that
close -knit family like there used to be where
people were actually reliant on each other. Now
it's optional. So maybe I'm a little jaded on
this topic, but I see a lot of family members
that just don't help each other that aren't around,
so therefore they're not as invested in the family
as a unit. or in the older people in their family
so when they pass it's not like they're inheriting
anything they only have those couple of memories
so i feel like it's because of the very little
that they get with them that's what they value
you know because i don't know like like here's
a question for you too how many younger people
spend a significant amount of time with the older
people in their family Or do they see them like
once a month, once every few months, maybe only
on holidays? I think it depends more so on the
family because I know a couple extremes. I know
some to see every day or about every day, and
I know some that just never see them. I mean,
I see mine, you know, at least, I don't know,
on average, at least once a week. I have family,
I see. See, maybe it's because of like where
I live, but I feel like that's outside the norm.
Yeah. Sadly, I'm now one of the oldest people
in my family. Oh, you'll be getting the title
of grandpa in the family. Oh, I'm not there yet.
Pinky jinks, pinky jinks. But I guess you get
my point, though. I feel like that's why people
are more into memories. is the point yeah on
that i mean families aren't as much of a cohesive
unit as they used to be you know they're they're
not staying in the same house they're not staying
on the same land they're spreading out a lot
more and a lot further than they ever used to
so yeah but i i get that uh gibbles do you want
to take the next section or you want uh you want
to wait till the next one the victorian hair
versus silicon avatars right now we just did
that one oh it was in the stack yeah oh explain
how you only virtual uses fursonas it yeah it's
not just a chat bot it's trained on unique relationship
data specific jokes your shorthand compared to
movie transcendence for memory and yeah it kind
of is like that however didn't in transcendence
they uh copied his brain yeah and it's kind of
the same um process to to the extent of they
were doing literally a brain download in the
movie right whereas here they're they're training
an ai to do that instead of a brain dump but
it's the same kind of outcome as what they're
after with the exception of they're not trying
to actually copy somebody like this is just intended
to be a a mimic more or less it it does reaction
based on all of your old conversations text messages
voicemails that kind of thing right so it does
like a rough approximation but does not add to
well this is our thoughts from now it it does
add to because as things progress They will learn.
Yeah. And, and they, they will grow a little
bit. So we also run the risk of corporate slot,
you know, basically this is the fun part. Yeah.
You know, the AI starts to hallucinate or, uh,
if you will kind of like a dark mirror or black
mirror, whatever you call it, God, um, you know,
your digital mother starts recommending a specific
brand of cereal. Or quoting a politician she
hated who owns that mistake. Yeah. Oh, okay.
I'm talking to my deceased brother and all of
a sudden he starts quoting off, you know, the
latest, you know, fishing rod. Cause he likes
fishing and he's like, Hey, if you go to Amazon,
you might be able to get this particular fishing
rod for 1999. And you know, stupid shit like
that. Yeah. So right now, if corporations, put
ads for when my dead relatives are talking to
me, I will happily burn the entire place down
while I do it. I don't even need that. That would
be the most rage -inducing thing possible. Oh,
yeah. So the Black Mirror reference there, one
of the most recent, I think it was the most recent
season of Black Mirror, the guy was keeping his
wife alive. Yeah. And the plan that they had,
they started having her spew out ads. She didn't
realize that she was doing it. She blanked out
while the ads were being broadcast through her,
but she didn't know about it. And people thought
she was going nuts. Yeah. And then when she started,
what was it like? She was in a classroom with
little kids. She started doing advertisements
that were really adult in nature, and they kicked
her out of school because of it. Yeah. One was
like a therapy ad for one of the kids. So, yeah.
It's all funny games until your grandma starts
recommending sex toys. Oh, God. It's all funny
games until that AI starts. Granny, I don't need
you to tell me about Bad Dragon. No. With the
inclusive demonstration, no! Fuck you for the
last part. That's terrible. Grandma, stay away
from the sex queens, I swear to God. It's...
Oh, man. Oh, gebbos, take a ride on that latest
bad dragon. Oh, God. I would beat my phone across
the goddamn wall so fast. You have no idea. We'll
make some fresh tapioca pudding for you. I would
probably be puking out the hole in the wall.
We still have people watching this after that.
I apologize for my friend. My God. We'll make
some extra chunky clam chowder. There's a reason
why we all only meet up once or twice a year
and we purposely harass each other with an IHOP.
I'm still impressed you let us in there. Oh,
I don't know if they will Labor Day. I don't
know if they will. We go there this year. oh
man you got hair on your ass unless one of us
goes in first going all my friends are here they're
as big as me and we're off the wagon tonight
from our jenny craig diet and put the kids away
because last time children disappeared and that's
a damn shame oh all right so You guys have asked
about the legal points. So we will pivot back
into the brown eye of the law of denial. Let's
do this without the pink eye. Yes. Two in the
pink, one in the stink. That's correct. So a
little bit of a deep dive into the California
bill. Again, it was Senate Bill 243, the companion
chatbot law. It went into effect on January 1st
of this year. Some of the key provisions were
that bots must state they are AI if a reasonable
person would be misled. There's a minor rule
included in this. If a child is talking to a
grief bot, the system must issue a break reminder
every three hours and remind them this is not
a human. So the philosophical friction, why does
the state feel the need to intervene in our grief?
Because the simulation is becoming more convincing
than the absence. And a follow -up question,
who decides what's reasonable? That's literally
the first thing I thought of when you said that
sentence. Jesus Christ. I don't think, I hate
to be this person, but if anybody's using a grief
bot to deal with their grief. I think the phrase
reasonable has gone out the window. Yeah. I'm
not using that to demean anybody because I get
it. Some people, they don't have family or friends.
They don't have anyone to talk to. If it could
truly help somebody, I'm with it. However, bots
must state whether they're an AI. If a reasonable
person would be misled, no. It should be for
any and all instances. There shouldn't be any
allowance for anywhere else. It should be, hey,
if this is an AI or a human facsimile or anything
like that that's trying to replicate being a
person. It should be disclosed. It should be
disclosed, clearly stated, and you should have
to click a button that acknowledges that I accept
that this is an AI facsimile, human program,
whatever. It is not a person. You should have
to click and accept that for every single thing.
Because, alternatively, you should have the legal
right to talk to somebody that's not an AI. Yep.
That needs to be allowed for any sort of... chat
any sort of customer service anything that way
this bakes into the law that if you want to use
ai to get it done quicker cool you can if you're
doing something stupid like a return returning
a package off amazon who cares but in the case
of like this like if they're a grief thing or
like a self -deletion hotline or something like
that or anything else like you really really
really need to be able well a self -deletion
hotline that took me i can't see the other one
But if you get what I'm saying, I think that
needs to be forefront and obvious and clear as
day. I hate the fact that it's only acceptable
if a reasonable person might think it's fooled.
No. Because then the problem is it obfuscates
responsibility. And then they can say, well,
you know, we didn't think it was a reasonable,
you know. Okay, so let me ask you this. How many
times do you read the terms and... conditions
before you click i agree uh not very often but
i'm also at from a mental standpoint accepting
the fact that at some point i could be accidentally
agreeing that i'm going to become part of a human
centipede so okay let me ask you this did you
guys watch three body problem digital centipede
that's awesome also no i did not I've watched
about halfway through. Okay, there was a part
in Three -Body Problem where a guy was agreeing
to give his brain to the program. To do that,
he had to go through the self -deletion process.
There was this multi -step process that he had
to go through. He had to answer yes several times
before he could actually get to the final one.
Some kind of a, I have to read through this and
answer a question about what I just read to make
sure that I read what I just read kind of thing
could be put in place to make sure that you understand
you're talking to a bot. And that's how you can
get around the terms and conditions type of scenario.
There was a lot to say that, but you know. I
think especially too, if you're talking about
the minor role with kids, you know, I don't trust
this technology enough to be allowed for kids
with something like that. I really feel like
that it's been like an 18 plus only thing. I
agree with you. If a kid's dealing with grief,
I really feel like they need to talk to people,
people or a licensed professional or a family
member or someone that can help them. Cause like,
again, that's why if they're in school, that's
why they have school counselors and other, other
resources available. That's like those 800 numbers.
Yeah, I was going to say it would be like the
800 numbers back in the day talking to what's
-her -name, you know, for the tarot cards and
all that. You know, if you're a kid, you weren't
doing that. But an adult, you understood, okay,
you know, this isn't real. Right. But I think
for a kid with the AI thing, that can get out
of hand really quick. Yeah. And a kid might not
know where the line is and if they rely on it
too much. What happens if a 12 -year -old is
dealing with the loss of their mom or their dad
or a close family member or something like that,
and it becomes not a crutch to lean on for a
day or maybe to help them through something?
What if it becomes something they're reliant
on every day? Or it becomes something more than
what it's supposed to be? And with how we've
seen how adaptive AI is, even today, let alone
a few years from now, that could get really weird.
Because we've already seen kids, unfortunately,
have very... unhealthy relationships with technology
even just with the way things are today let alone
where this could go in a few years yeah yeah
and um the the thing about having the kids talking
to people and whatnot the only other thing i
could think of that would be acceptable is having
them talking to a vr representative that's actually
like a person that just looks like a dog that's
talking to them that's that's different And I
know you get that reference. Oh, yeah. But as
long as I feel like with kids. You got to have
more control with it. Oh, yeah. I guess that's
kind of my fear, because, boy, if you don't put
any lockdowns on this stuff and just let kids
roam free with that. Yeah. Holy hell. Especially
what happens if the grief AI is the only area
that kids have unfettered access to. And they
use it to do shit that's illicit or illegal or
whatever. Because you can convince an AI to do
some crazy stuff even if you outright tell it
not to do it. Yeah, I think these AI would be
pretty locked down. But you're right. I mean,
there's no telling what kind of safeties you
can get around if you talk to it the right way.
Well, not only that, you also have the situation
where you know about Razor coming out with their
own. new virtual ai companion for your desktop
yeah i saw that the digital waifu yeah yeah the
hologram yeah it's using grok and like i was
telling you guys earlier that stuff is uh it's
getting you know that whole it's there but just
enough that your brain's still going wtf wow
and it kind of just very disconcerting so I can
only imagine seeing something maybe the size
of my glass you know sitting on my desk with
a little tiny holographic waifu or whatever and
you're just talking to them could you imagine
like you make that into grandma or whatever just
sitting on your desk hey grandma how you doing
today people will get sucked into their own little
world uh -huh so fast without vr without anything
else that'll literally be they check up on family
members that have already died and they just
tell them what they want tell them what they
want here Yeah. Just be the reaffirming supportive
person. Meanwhile, you're describing horrors
beyond imagined. Just like this Jeffrey Dahmer
type of guy describing, oh, I just felt like
murdering, doing all this other stuff. This robot's
like, you know, honey, I remember when we did
that trip back to the lake house in 2016. You
were just such a good boy. If you just believe
in yourself, you could be a good boy. Yes, I
could be a good boy. I could do it. Then you
just end up on the news in the worst way possible.
I feel like this could go really bad. Okay, so
while you were talking about that, I had a thought.
What if this is also used by people who just
simulate the people that they wanted to have
in their lives? You know, the ones that got away
type deal. Oh, that way. Yeah. Oh, no. Because
I'm sure this tech can be used that way. Yeah.
And they start developing full -on relationships
with those digital waifus and bonding it with
this kind of a tech. Could you imagine? I got
one for you. A stalker. He knows that the person
he's been stalking passed away. Now, digitally,
that person's now in their afterlife in the digital
realm. Now they get to stalk them while they're
digital. For $24 .99 a month, they can be hit.
There's forever. You know, If someone could do
that in lieu of stalking a real person, I feel
like that trade -off's worth it. If it's a fake
person and they're not, but the problem is I
feel like for some people that would embolden
them to do even more. Some people would be like,
this will satiate, whereas other people would
be like, but that means I can stalk the real
person. It would just get weird. That's like
if the argument would be almost like a pedophile
with a sex doll. At what point is what's too
far or too much at that point? Where's that line?
And that's kind of what I was going to say is
that's probably going to be the next step is
going from the digital waifu to ordering the
sex doll that just looks like them. Right. Using
the AI to get what they want. I swear to God
a razor makes a fucking genitalia update. You
know, it's like, oh, you know, your companion
assistant here can now assist you in all these
more interactive ways. It's crazy. This motor
just clips onto the table and it just, yeah,
it's wild. It just, you know, it's used for whatever
you think. Just use your imagination. Yeah, no.
It's a finger cleaner. Get it right. Or it's
a dog paw cleaner. Oh, man. So nice that you
think so highly of yourself. It's a vegetable
washer. It's a vegetable washer. But there are
a lot of people, I feel like, and this goes back
a bit to our dating episode we were talking about,
where I think enough people are just completely
opting out of the dating world that some people
will choose the AI companion. Oh, 100%. They
will choose to say, hey. like what you brought
up that you never thought about before oh this
person that got away like maybe they were your
first love in high school or something like that
or in college or something else whatever they'll
just grab all their information off of instagram
or facebook or whatever upload everything you
just be like yep that's my fantasy that that's
or or since people so freely post all their stuff
on instagram and the socials they can download
all that information and model their doll after
that that's what i'm saying yeah and they can
get the personality off the reels They can literally
just have a fake relationship with someone that
they might not even know. And people would, especially
with celebrities. Oh, 100%. On Facebook, there's
35 ,870 people dating Sidney Sweeney. I don't
know how that fucking happened. That's like the
episode of Futurama. Yeah. Yeah. Bender was dating
Lucy Liu or something like that. Yep. The Lucy
Liu bot. Yep. Yep. Yeah. Good times. But every
time they scanned the head, they were, like,
shocked. Like, ah! Get me out of here, Bender!
That would be weird. Like, if you were a celebrity,
and you just see your hashtag is, like, in love
with this blank celebrity look, and it's just
people just doing weird shit with your avatar
version of yourself or whatever on their desk.
Only a psychopath would enjoy that. Oh, have
you been to the U .S.? There are some weird fucking
people, man. Yeah, that is true. What? No. I'm
talking about the celebrity side, though. Oh,
yeah. Yeah, they're all fucking weird. It's going
to be the Britney Spears, you know, the love
doll situation. She's just going to be like...
Maybe that's what's wrong with her. Now, let
me pose the other half of the argument. Who is
going to be the first celebrity to embrace it
and become a trillionaire? Oh, God. And say,
oh, yeah, for an additional $3 .99 a month, you
could have me. Or whoever. It's like Sidney Sweeney
or Megan Fox or whoever. Lizzo. So is that like
sloppy seconds or something like that? Not even
touching that one. It's not even sloppy seconds
anymore. It's just like it's so far out there.
It's like not even worth mentioning. But you
get my point. Like this could be the money -making
opportunity of a lifetime for a lot of these
celebrities that once that comes out, if you
jump on board that bandwagon. Yeah. Well, okay,
realistically, any big OnlyFans creator, any
big porn star, any big actress that's just sought
after, somebody like Jenna Ortega could literally
go down that line without ever actually posing
nude and could make a gajillion dollars. Just
by doing that, offering up her avatar for that.
Yeah, things are going to get really weird. But
it's going to happen. Mark my words, one of them.
I don't know which one, but one of them is going
to see the money -making opportunity and say,
you know, I'll do it. Yeah. It's probably going
to be a porn star. Probably. It'll either be
a porn star or somebody that's got a very high
opinion of themselves. I feel like Amaranth would
be the first person to do that. Yes, Amaranth
would probably be very high on that list. The
girl that sang the Anaconda song would be on
that list. And then after you get somebody to
do that, how long would it take before you get
a video of their avatar getting just mutilated
by somebody? Oh, God. I mean, there's a Reddit
for everything. That's what I'm saying. We are
in America, so there's a little something for
everybody. That's something that ends up on FetLife
on Reddit, so there you go. See, the problem
is there'll be a whole subreddit for torture
AI. Yeah. For people torturing their AI companions,
too. Oh, yeah. Again, what if Hear Me Out politicians
sold their AIs purposely for people to date,
but also for people to torture and do... If they
really don't like this politician, but they're
like, fuck it, you might hate me so much, but
I can raise money for my next campaign. I could
see J .D. Vance doing that. He already embraces
the meme. I could see Ocasio -Cortez doing that.
Oh, God. The things people would do. I would
not listen. I've had crazy people tell me I'm
crazy before, but then they were just like, I'm
not touching that. Nope. I'm crazy, but no. To
be fair, it's the AI version, so it has no...
Yeah. Maybe if you have a crazy setting, you
can dial it back, you know? Oh, if you had an
adjustable crazy setting, dude, that'd be amazing.
Yeah, that would be, like, standard, I would
assume. Could do it, like, on the good place
with the AI, where every time you go to hit the
button to reset her, she just freaks out, like,
no, no, no, no, click. Oh, God. You could take
some spicy cubes and turn the crazy up to 10
and have a real good night. Oh, Jesus Christ.
Oh, God, Pip. Here we go. Sorry. My pants can
only contain so much. All right, so we should
probably get back on track. Yeah, it was for
sure. AI Bernie's here to ask for another donation.
Sorry. Once again, come back from the grave to
ask you for your support. I've come to ask you
in my time of need. Oh, God. So are we at the
point where we can have the legal discussion
on this? Yes. So we've got... The psychology
of the second death. Okay. Dr. Sarika Bora last
year talked about how grief tech can lead to
delayed grief or emotional stasis. And we've
already kind of touched on that in several points.
And one of those issues is the bankruptcy scenario.
What happens if the company hosting your loved
one's soul, goes bankrupt, or if the servers
are wiped, or if they're hacked and held ransom,
the family would essentially suffer a second
death, which would be a sudden digital bereavement
that can be just as, if not more, traumatic than
the first. I mean, that's technically something
that's sort of happened in a way now. Like, what
was that, 21andMe or what the hell genetic company
that they had to sell everything off? 23andMe,
yeah. Yeah, 23andMe. And they declared bankruptcy,
and now everybody's genetic material is just
up on a list for sale. I've been spreading my
genetic material around for years freely, so,
I mean, that didn't bother me. I didn't put my
genetic material around like that. But, you know,
hey. The head shake of disappointment, man. I
feel like you've got to offset it for the guys
that never do anything. So, like, you've got
to pick up the average, you know? Yeah. Oof.
But, I mean, again, it's like the same thing
in the end. Oh, yeah. Okay, so you have a company
that, you know, like, gave Newell. He owns Steam.
He runs it privately, and it's amazing. But at
some point... The man's going to die, just like
somebody owns this company where your loved ones
are. What happens afterwards? The next person
comes in, they decide, like, screw it, we're
going to put advertisements everywhere. You're
going to have to pay a monthly fee now to be
able to keep all your stuff. Oh, grandma? No,
grandma is now going to cost you $90 a month
versus, you know, the $1 .99 before with no ads.
Now grandma's going to talk about erectile dysfunction
because you're not paying for the premium software.
And they would do that shit. They would customize
the ad so they'd be the most uncomfortable things
for your loved ones to discuss just to make it
that much easier for you to be willing to pay.
Oh, Sonny, have you been taking your Viagra today?
Are you baking some sourdough downstairs, darling?
Get yourself some Vagiclean. I haven't watched
that movie in a while. Dude, I don't need that.
Oh, yes, you do. You know everything about you.
Oh, God. So I think in order for this to be a
legitimate thing in the U .S., we would have
to discuss who actually owns the rights to that
information. Yeah. Because like because like
that. You're trading the fine line of if it's
a person or not, but if it isn't, then who owns
it? Because the company can't necessarily own
someone else's memories. Right. But if you hand
over it all to them, that might be part of their
agreement that, hey, they own all the photos,
memories, documents, everything that they're
going to do. It's going to be a standard boilerplate
kind of legal agreement. So then the problem
is if they do go bankrupt. It does go bye -bye
because you signed that agreement. I don't think
there's any company that's going to be still
willing to hand that back over to you because
they're going to use all of that for somebody
else's AI person. The data farming and the data
points, all that shit, the metadata alone would
be worth millions. Yeah. There's no way that
would disappear. The only way that would work
is if they uploaded it to a cloud and you were
able to download it at any time. So that way
you have access to it. So you can download it
yourself. And the problem is, again, like upload,
you're going to have your goddamn grandparents
on a flash drive. They shut down. And you better
hope you don't spill it or put it in water or
something. Yeah. Or the battery dies. Like what
Razer has, though, with that personal AI thing,
where if you just plug your grandparents into
that, now they're on the corner of your desk
all the time. Yeah. You know? which that again
seems like something out of an episode of black
mirror yeah not sure how comfortable i'd feel
with that you know especially if i decided to
watch an adult film or something that grandma's
just staring at me blankly the whole time not
sure i'm good with that one oh the comments that's
the problem because they're one comment away
from traumatizing you forever You like this,
Grandma? This is all your fault. Or what's going
to happen, I'll tell you right now, someone is
going to move Grandma and Grandpa into their
kid's room because the parents are trying to
get busy and the kids are going to be busy trying
to do something. And they're going to look at
Grandma and Grandpa staring at them in the middle
of the night. Oh, yeah. You could do an entire
comedy series about it. The AI would just be
traumatized. It would be the first time AI needs
therapy. Like you were saying, Gibbles, with
it sitting there watching you, your digital grandma
could be like, you know, your grandfather used
to do something like that to me every night.
And my therapy bills are going to increase. The
VA is going to be like, no, we can't pay for
that one. That's the worst. All activities have
come to a halt. We're declaring a state of emergency
in the bedroom. We are evacuating immediately.
We will, we will. But I feel like that's the
route we'd end up going. But I guess the other
question would be, is do you have the legal right
to copy someone without their permission? Well,
so the last section in the notes here is, Titled
The Exit Strategy. Introducing the concept of
a digital will that you need to legally state
if you don't want to be reanimated. Yeah. So
stating in your will what you want done or not
done specifically with your data after you're
gone is something that going forward may have
to be done. Yeah. Something like that. It would
have to be, even if you don't have a will, unless
you physically, you know, if you have something
in right, unless you have something in writing,
this can't be done. Unless you specifically have
a will set up that says, Hey, you can use me
virtually with the digital set up. Okay. We can
do it, but there's no will. There's no documentation
or nothing. Hey, guess what? Hands off. Can't
do. Yeah. This would, this would be a whole different
type of DNR order. Because there's the living
DNR, and this will be the after I'm dead DNR.
Do not reanimate. Right. DNR. So, yes. Do not
resuscitate. Do not reanimate. That's a, yeah.
So. I guess the question, too, is, like, for
how long is that relevant? Because, like, for
example, if a celebrity says do not reanimate
and 100 years passes. Is anyone really going
to care at that point? I wonder if the statute
of limitations is going to be on that, depending
on the person. Because let's be real. Let's just
say, theoretically, Dwayne The Rock Johnson signs
a thing saying, nope, can't reanimate it, can't
do anything with it. How long do you think it'll
be until some company is just going to buy the
rights from the living family member or they're
just going to do it anyway or find some legal
loophole? So ideally, everything should or would
be deleted about them. At that point, so that
they could not. It ensures finality at that point.
If you don't want to be reanimated digitally,
all of your digital footprint would have to be
erased. That's assuming people have access to
that. Well, I mean, on Google. Direct it in your
will. Yeah, I mean, on Google, they already have
it. Yeah, but, no, let me ask you a question.
Maybe it's just because I live with this, but.
How many 85 or 90 -year -olds do you think remember
their fucking passwords and all their social
media stuff as of today? It's right here. It's
right there. You tie it all into a thumbprint.
You can get that after they pass. You can do
that today. Yeah, but here's the thing. Maybe
it's in my experience trying to get an 85 -year
-old that does not like technology to do anything
like that. I'd rather go build myself a Taj Mahal
in the backyard. Trying to get a 30 -year -old
to do something with digital anything these days
is also pain in the ass. I get it. That might
be a whole different episode that we talk about
is how people are embracing the dumb tech. Just
on a side note, Google has it where, say, if
you're inactive for six months, whatever you
specify, you know, cause you died, you know,
you can have an emergency contact for that. So
then you leave a message saying, Hey, you know,
apparently I've died and you're responsible for
all my information. Here you go. Or whatever
it is you decide to set. You could do that with
Apple accounts on, if you know that. Yeah. Yeah.
Google has the same thing. I mean, you know,
you can actually do that now. So I have it set
up for my kids. So I do leave a little message
saying, hey, scrub the history. Yeah. You might
not want to see it. Click the unmarked folders.
Yes. Just delete. That's it. Don't open that
stuff unless you want years of therapy. Yes.
You might be curious, but trust me, you're not
curious enough. Yeah. So any other big thoughts,
big questions, big scenarios that you guys had
on this? Because I was hoping it would go a little
longer, but we're actually at the end of it.
What I was going to say is how many people are
going to collect a bunch of those AI pod things
and have a harem of celebrities with them? So
that's kind of an interesting thought. There
are probably going to be a whole cast of people
who don't put the do not reanimate clauses into
their stuff. And they don't really have anybody
left after them to kind of keep after their stuff.
So there could be like we have ambulance chasers
that go after the accident victims and whatnot.
I wonder if there's going to be information chasers.
that go around and collect all the information
of those that have recently departed, and they
try to sell that to people so that they can have
the girl of their dreams or the spouse or the
husband of their dreams in the digital form.
So, like, in the case of, say, somebody's got
their freak on, they want the golden girls. Would
they be able to do that? Because, you know, of
course, they passed away before all this. But
they could still try to recreate them. Could
you still get away with that? It depends on who
owns the rights. You know there's somebody out
there that'd be like, I want all four. I want
Bea Arthur. Yes. I want all of them. It's potentially
possible, but it would probably fall into some
kind of illegal gray zone because, like Gibbs
said, depends on who owns the rights and whether
or not they have anything set up to have that
allowed or prevented. So here's... Here's my
next part of the question. If you legally marry
one of these AIs, is there going to be a whole
legal thing for people hunting down people that
have died that AI owns half of the estate? Oh,
my God. And that goes to the person. It's like,
let's just say theoretically, here's the trillion
-dollar idea I wanted to get to now that we finally
have the time I can discuss this. If you are
somebody that is a rich, attractive woman in
the U .S., what you do is you do this AI thing.
Then you do it to where you are allowing them
to marry the AI as long as they sign it like
it's a legal document and they inherit everything,
but that AI is a representative of you. Therefore,
you, as the owner of it, get half of the shit.
Oh, hell no. Nope. Nope. No way. I would be pirating
that shit. Yeah. But you know. You know there
are people out there. Yeah. People out there
trying to marry a body pillow for fuck's sakes.
Well, you had that dude that married the waifu
thing before it got shut down. That's over in
Japan. Or was it South Korea? It was one or the
other, but I still feel bad for that guy. It's
only going to get worse, boys. It's only going
to get worse. Oh, yeah? Yeah, because they can
marry their dolls, and now they can have downloadable
personalities. They can upgrade them. Have you
watched that movie, Companion? Not yet, no. Your
watch list is growing by the episode. But that's
the problem. It's like, I don't have. This is
my free time. I know. I know. It's Nala. Nala
the kitty. Yeah, the movie Companion is well
worth a watch. As we talked about is Transcendence.
Go back and watch that one because it's kind
of creepy. Several episodes of Black Mirror.
Yes. I mean. Boys, we're entering a phase of
human existence that I really only thought would
exist in science fiction. Or at least far enough
away that we weren't going to have to worry about
it. Yeah, well, I genuinely believe that one
of my children will probably come home dating
the toaster. And it's probably going to be my
youngest. Yeah, I was about to say my youngest
would be the one that would pull some shenanigans
like that just because. So. But in 10 years time.
This is toaster. Toaster, this is dad. Yeah.
What was that, Gibbs? I'm sorry. In 10 years
time. In 10 years time, you never know what the
technology is going to be. Because if they recognize
this kind of stuff as legal people. Yeah, well,
in eight years' time, we should be on the front
lines fighting the Terminators. So it depends
on what timeline falls out. Well, we're on the
Harambe timeline, so all bets are off. Well,
okay, we need to get to the computer and figure
out how it goes with the Harambe timeline converging
with the Idiocracy timeline. I think that means
civil war in the next three to four years. Gross.
That's where we're going. The way things are
going, yeah, you got politicians that can say
whatever they want to drive the populace fricking
batty. And that's why I think people are going
to turn into using AI and stuff like that for
romantic. Because imagine down the road, imagine
if there is a lot of civil strafe and civil war
in just the Western world. What if people were
like, I have to go outside and risk my life or
I could stay home and talk to this thing. It's
going to happen. I'm telling you. Yeah. It's
going to get weird. It's going to go wee -woo,
wee -woo. I can't wait to see the numbers on
the demographics and information of who ends
up getting them and what they end up being, who
they end up being, why. Yeah. How far do they
go? Yeah. I'm sorry, that information is going
to be public at some point. Oh, yeah, I'm sure.
Then we need the download stats of different
people and whatnot. Though I will say, if there's
money to be made in it, I volunteer as tribute
to be that first robot. Oh. So I mentioned FetLife
subreddit. How long before we start seeing robo
-porn in Pornhub and whatnot? You kind of see
that now where retards are with their love dolls.
You said the no -no word. Yep. God damn it. I'm
sorry. Oh, man. Every time you say that, you
have to donate to an autism charity now. Well,
I can just put the quarter in my own jar. How
about that? Oh, man. The only thing I will say
is if you're talking about robot love, there's
this very famous robot in Fallout called Fisto.
And Fisto is going to be seeing a lot of work.
Let me tell you. Do you know what Fisto's tagline
is? Oh God, what is it? Assume the position.
If you two have never played Fallout New Vegas,
it's a fun time. Actually, that was the one that
I actually didn't get very far in. I got distracted
and would just go off into the desert and try
to find my way off the map. I just kept doing
that. It's a fun story. You know, you mentioned
Fisto, and now I just want a home defense robot
that once I activate intruder alert on my Alexa
or whatever, it just comes back with that, oh,
you've got a tight little man pussy, don't you?
I can say that, but I can't say what I said.
Jesus. That's also bad, too, the both of you.
Oh, shit. See, you got to have it start playing
beach. You stay alive. It's like, I got five,
the three minutes in the ring with you. For three
minutes, you're gone. Oh, God. Oh, yeah. It smells
so bad in here. Oh, man. Dispensing baby oil.
Damn, I was just like... Oh, BD, look out. Operation
DD commencing. It's just like squirting baby
oil out of the nipples on him. Oh, man. Oh, fuck.
You know... Man. Thank God none of us have access
to a lot of money. Yeah. Because I would, God,
my house would be a nightmare for anyone to invade.
Yeah. It would just look like a scene out of
one of the Hellraiser movies, basically. Yep.
Chains and leather everywhere. Chains, leather,
and Roombas with claymores, let me tell you.
Chainsaw Roomba. I will say it till the day I
die. A chainsaw will be the most threatening
sound anybody could ever hear inside of a house
they're not supposed to be in. You know, I saw
the best video online with a Roomba the other
day. They took a Roomba, attached a French knife
to it, and stuck it in a ring with a bunch of
colored balloons. And you had to bet on which
colored balloon was going to survive. Oh, wow.
Yeah. That one looked really cool. That's the
most poverty -stricken version of The Hunger
Games I've ever heard of. Right? That is officially
The Starving Games, folks. The Starving Games.
If you ever see that movie, The Starving Games
is actually a really funny parody movie. Yeah.
It's funny. First world problems here, you know.
I have enough money for a robot vacuum, but I
don't have enough money for food. Yep. Oh, man.
I got a party. We got balloons. We got Roomba
and a French knife. We're good to go. As long
as it's named the French tickler, we're golden.
All right, boys. I guess my final thought on
that was going to be. How many people are going
to use this to then stick those AIs into actual
robots to then just pretend people in their family
or their friends never died or spouses, children,
stuff like that? How many people are just going
to go off the fucking rails? With the way that
robots are advancing, I don't know if you guys
watched any of the CES show, but the newest version
of Atlas is looking pretty good. Some of the
other robots coming out of China. I know some
of the robots they were showing at CES that looked
like actual people looked less believable than
the one that they set up as more of an artistic
design where it was more of a cyberpunk feel
to it. That one felt better aesthetically than
some of the ones that were supposed to be like
real people. Those ones just looked terrible.
So that one that we talked about a few months
back that was so lifelike looking, they had to
cut its leg open on stage just to prove that
it wasn't somebody in a suit. Those ones are
still being refined and being delivered soon,
I believe. Those are, I think, some of the Chinese
models. If those get something like the personality
updates like you were talking about, that could
be a very real and scary thing. Because what
I wanted to bring up is, have either of you two
played Fallout 4? No. Yes. Okay. In Fallout 4,
one of the big campaign talking points and things
that are happening in the Commonwealth is that
people are being replaced by synths. That basically
they download all the memories and everything,
they rebuild the robot body, it looks exactly
like them, all the memories, personality, everything,
and they replace them. It's like a secret sleeper
agent. Now we get to throw our tinfoil hat on.
Once this technology can merge both of them,
and especially if they're allowed just to take
all the data, everything off of online and create
a person, how long will it be until they start
replacing people? It's Invasion of the Body Snatchers.
So we turn into that Disney movie or Pixar movie,
whatever it was, where Robin Williams was that
red robot. Not Bicentennial Man. No, no, no,
no, no, no. Robots. Yeah, robots. Yes. Yeah.
You know, we're going to make a baby. Yeah. Here's
the instruction manual. Making it's the fun part.
That was an underrated movie. That was really
good. It was just jazz and junk. Call it funk.
I feel like Robin Williams has a long string
of movies that are very good, but they're very
underrated and a lot of people forgot about.
Yeah. I was still mad when they didn't use him
for the live action. They easily could have.
For which one? Of what? Aladdin. Oh, yeah. Or
Genie. Didn't they use Will Smith? Yeah, he's
Will Smith. I mean, he did okay, but you can't
beat the original Genie. He was dead. Not like
a Madison anymore. So was the guy for Star Wars
and they put him in that movie without issue
and or whatever the hell it was. That was probably
a budgetary issue because the scenes that he
was in were minute. Still. And it ran the budget
through the roof. yeah they put luke skywalker
in the freaking mandalorian for christ's sake
they can do it yeah that's true but that's disney
money so give another five years and movies will
be all made by ai anyway so yeah yeah you know
i've seen a couple that not bad not great but
Well, so I had a chat with AI not long ago, and
I know we're way off topic at this point, about
taking full novels and having them uploaded to
AI to have a book -accurate movie rendered, produced,
and ready to watch within a working day. So you
could leave for work, drop the PDF into the AI's
inbox, essentially. By the time you get home
and get dinner ready, it will have the movie
ready to go for you. that tech is probably three
to five years out yeah like at the worst case
scenario and the only way that would work is
you'd have to be able to show that you are the
author of that book to pull that off because
otherwise that's such copyright infringement
it's disgusting well no it's taking a work that
exists and creating a digital work that doesn't
exist based on the work copyright infringement
because you're not selling it. It's only for
you. For personal use, yeah. Yeah, I mean, I
get it, but at some point, where's the money
going to come from that has to make that? You're
probably just buying the book, paying for the
AI engine. You know? Yeah. Hear about this, because
hear me out on this one. What companies will
do is they will sell the licensing. to someone
for like three or five bucks a month for all
of Disney's portfolio and Marvel and everything
from like Hulu or Netflix or everything. They'll
sell, I bet you money, they'll be willing to
sell access to the entire catalog for AI editing
for a certain amount of money per month. And
by that time, you should be able to buy a GPU
that can handle a lot of this AI stuff in your
computer in and of itself anyway. It's like,
congratulations. Now... You are paying the monthly
subscription for the license to build whatever
you want. And that way you're paying them for
the royalties on it. And they still technically
own anything you make. That way they can stature
up and say, oh, that's a good idea. It's our
movie now. Thank you. Your movie is my movie.
It's our movie. Thank you very much. Also, think
about this. They can have tiers of actors and
actresses available. So they can just let you
pay for those. And they can have the C tier,
the B tier, the A tier. And if you want to have
your book turn into a movie with a certain set
of actors and actresses in it, you can pick and
choose at will. That's the episode of Black Mirror
where what's -her -name was being reenacted by
a famous actress where she had signed her digital
rights to her image and everything. And she was
okay with it until the girl decided, I'm going
to go into a church and defecate. Yeah. That
was a weird -ass episode, but it was funny, too.
Oh, God, yeah. It was hilarious. They were making
fun of Netflix so hard on that one. It was great.
Oh, yeah. Yeah. You have to be able to laugh
at yourself, which makes it even better. Yep.
And Wookie, it's not whatever. It's true. Get
it right. So we'll go ahead and end the episode.
Final thoughts for the grief industrial complex?
people need to learn to deal with their lives
and understand that the human experience is full
of ups and downs and don't try to sugarcoat or
run away from it. Deal with it in a healthy way
and move on and understand that life gets better.
Yeah. And let evil die. Don't, don't let the
evil live. Cause I swear to God, if they let
my mother live on in digital, I will burn that
database. They dated center down. You think I'm
joking. I will burn it. I don't. I do not. I
will end it by saying the beauty of life is its
finality. When we consume the simulation of the
dead, we'll lose our appetite for the living.
So with that, I'll say thanks for sticking around,
everyone. And we'll see you next week. Bye -bye.
Bye.